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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Jerome Powell <officeofimf346@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dongood910@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 02:28:51 -0800
Subject: Central Bank of USA

--

I am now in charge of your fund payment in my department here in
Central Bank of USA (CBN) and like i stated in my mail that your
name appear in our Central Computer here as a beneficiary who have not
receive his contract payment for long, Be informed that your fund
of USD $5000,Million Dollars has been approved by the (IMF) and the federal
government for payment and we have decided to convert your fund into
an (ATM CARD) which we will send to you in your country for the
withdrawal of your fund in any ATM machine in your country.

To make it easy for your payment in order to avoid many expenses in
receiving your funds, we have made every arrangement regarding your
payment through (ATM CARD) since last week Due to the instruction
given to us for your immediate payment.

I have to inform you again, That we are not playing over this, I know
my reason for the continuous sending of this notification to you, The
fact is that you can't seem to trust any one again over this payment
for what you have been in cantered in many Year/months ago, But i want
you to trust me, I cannot scam you for $50 It is for bank processing
of your ATM CARD, The fees of $50 is clearly written to you before, I
did not invent the bill to defraud you of $50 It is an official bank
ATM CARD processing fee, And the good part of this, Is that you will
never, Ever be disturbed again over any kind of payment, This is
final, And the forms from there becomes effective once we submit your
ATM CARD application processing fee and pay the form fee of $50 don't
want you to loose this ATM CARD this time,

Thank you and God bless you.
Name/ Jerome Powell

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